Anita Wlodarczyk Athlete Of The Year Finalist

With just 16 days to go until the IAAF Athletics Awards 2016 which will reveal the name of the 2016 Women’s World Athlete of the Year, we look at Anita Wlodarczyk, a contender to take out the top honour.

ANITA WLODARCZYK (POL)

Few athletes began the Olympic season as strong a favorite for gold as was Anita Wlodarczyk in the hammer.

She lived up to expectations brilliantly, dominating the competition in Rio with three of the five longest throws in history, topped by a monster effort of 82.29m.

That throw added 1.21m to the world record she set last year in Cetniewo, Poland, and was her 11th victory of the season in as many competitions. But there was more.

In her final competition of the year before a home crowd in Warsaw, the 31-year-old broke the world record again, this time with an 82.98m effort to extend her victory streak to 30 finals, which also included a third successive European title and the IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge crown.

THE VOTING PROCESS

The finalists were determined by a three-way voting process. The IAAF Council’s vote counted for 50% of the result, the IAAF Family’s vote counted for 25% and a public vote, conducted via social media, counted for 25% of the final result.

The World Athletes of the Year will be announced live on stage at the IAAF Athletics Awards 2016 in Monaco on Friday, 2 December.

Source IAAF